On: Solar-powered desalination device wins MIT $100K competition

[badrabbit]

Nuclear power to the rescue (again! Lol) use excess heat from nuclear power generation and the water that gets steamed anyways for cooling and desalinate it. The brine problem can be solved by not desalinating endlessly but using desalination to create lakes and dump the brine in the desert where nuke waste is buried.

[stubish → badrabbit]

Mixing corrosive saline and nuclear waste storage facilities is probably not the best idea.

[ncmncm → badrabbit]

Nuclear power is, as always, overwhelmingly more espensive than the alternative, solar. We have a great deal of desert in California, with plenty of sunshine, and evaporating only when the sun is out is fine.

You wouldn't even need enclosed evaporation containers; let the wind carry the moisture to the mountains, raining into existing reservoirs.

[deadmutex → badrabbit]

One of the big challenges: convincing people to drink water that was desalinated at a nuclear power plant.

[badrabbit → deadmutex]

Who said drinking. Use it to water all almond trees and golf grass, that takes up much more than drinking water. Or livestock too.

[coredog64 → deadmutex]

Where you see a challenge, I see an incredible marketing opportunity. People are buying water with a brand name of “Liquid Death”.

[wbl → badrabbit]

We already have a pool of brine in the desert.